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Building Our House – Week 25

In the foreground of this photo, you can see the roof tile and some of the gutter pieces.

Things are moving along! The guys continue to work very hard. These past two weeks, they have sanded the wood tablilla for the ceiling and are now in the process of applying the stain and polyurethane.

Sanding the tablilla

Finishing the tablilla

They finished the rework to the front entrance and the applying of the final finish coat on all the walls.

This is where we had a portion of the half wall torn out to improve the entrance to the house.

The gutters have been installed and are in the process of being re-painted. The first coat of paint didn’t match the roof tile very well, so that had to be adjusted.

All the shower valves were plumbed and the walls patched.

The shower valve for the guest suite is plumbed with PEX tubing.

This is the outdoor pool shower

Soon the guys will begin installing the roof tile and tiling the pool.

On another note, last week we woke up early in the morning and found that there were three dogs outside our door! Turns out that our caretaker Lopez, adopted another dog from a friend. Her name is Olivia and she is about eight months old. She is very shy and sweet doggie. Olivia is a Tico mix…we think she has some Chihauhua in her. She is best buddies with our new kitty…yes, believe it or not, we adopted a kitten shortly after Olivia arrived. It was a spur of the moment decision.

Olivia

Already best buddies!

Eddie and I were talking about finding an orange cat as they seem to be excellent hunters. Not sure if that’s really true or not, but our daughter has an orange cat that is an great hunter and Lopez has an orange cat that is an awesome hunter. We just happened to stop into the pet store in Uvita a week ago and there was an orange tabby kitty waiting for us. We just couldn’t resist…and so we adopted him. His name is Rusty (already given to him) and we think he is about 9 weeks old or so. He is so cool! Rusty has an fantastic personality. We really enjoy playing with him and so do Olivia, Paloma and Chiquita.